--- Ian
On Monday 17 December 2001 16:27, Jonathan Bacon wrote:
See above. Some might have a different point of view but in my experience children, even the youngest can use basic productivity tools with little modification. Mostly its the adults who transfer any prejudices they have to the children.
I couldn't agree more. We taught Excel to Reception classes in my last school - that's 5 year olds! It was incredibly successful. And yes, it IS the adults who transfer their prejudices (and worries). Of course a bit of preparation is needed. I have had a template file (read-only) on the desktop, and the children open it up and fill in the data that we've collected, then 'save as'. -- Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com